The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-08-03

and briars, while nothing equal them for
restoring fertility to worn out fisld.l
Bees are claimed as depredators, by eat
ing or carrying off the pulp of grapes.
They have been known 70 destroy peaches
also. The bees do not puncture frnit, but
after making the puncture they then begin
work on the fruit. The real enemy is the
wasp, which cuts the fruit, being followed
by the bees.
Apuddle of water for the hog to waIlow
In is something beneficial. At this season
it is cooling, while the drying of the dirt
on the body is of assistance in cleaning the
skin, as the hog will ruu it off. Tue only
objection to such puddles is that they will
soon become filthy and dissgreeable if
there be no running water near them.
AS soon as the runner of the straw.
berries begin to grow out pot them by fill
ing small pots with earth, sinking them to
the brims in the ground near the parent
plants. Then place young plant over
it to root IN the pot. The pots can then
be lifted and the plants transferred to per-
manent beds.
Hungarian grass proper has black seed
mainly. The millets have yellow seed.
Hungarian grass has less head and more
stalk and leaf, and is less liable to rust
and hence is better hay crop. and not so
good grain or seed crop. In selecting
seed for hay crop buy of a reliable seed
man, and take that which has the largest
possible proportion OF black seed.
After the fowls begin to molt they
should be given ground bone once every
day and meal of meat at least three times
a week, as the shedding of the new feathers
is n severe tax on them. If the hens be
we'll cared for whue melting they will
begin to lay before winter. Sell off the
surplus cockerels and do not retain the
late Matched pullets rs they will not lay
before spring.
Farmers lose much by letting clover and
orchard grass, two folders that can be cut
together, stand after they are fit for the
mower. Both of these soon turn to woody
fibre, which is about as digestible as
splinters from chestnut rail Plan ahead
so as to drop everything and attack the
orchard grass ss soon as the bloom fills and
the clover when half the heads begin to
brown.
Good, fat wethers are al ways marketable
where there is transportation to q market
and that is the country we are talking
about-snd We are quite sure that no pro-
duce of the farm can find more reader
sale or better value than this. But, be
it unGerstood, We mean good sheep. 1t
needs not that they be unnecessarily fat,
at is mol NdQL6U IN excess In mutton,
Int meat, solid food, a pound of which
will serve two or three for a meal. We
have times out of number paid 10 cents
per pound for mutton shops, one-third OF
which was only fit for food, either because
! there was too little meat or too much
thin, sinewy stringy stuff, in which was no
taste and which it was impossible to
nasticate. This latter is what is usually
| found in the market, and has made the
very name OF mutton word OF contempt
| in the United States.-[ Rural World.
We sometimes hear complaints from our
| correspondents that the clover and gras:
seeds they buy are not good. The best way
| to guard against this sort of opposition is
| for the farmer to grow his own grass and
clover seeds. By so doing he not only
Sc cures seed that will certainly terminate
| but what is just as mportaDt-indeeo
more so-he secures immunity from the
! introduction of noxious weeds. Those who
| grow sc eds for sale are not, of course, very
| particular about getting more or less weed
seed in the grass seed, and they are thu;
scattered over the whole country. Whereas
| If one saYes his own seed he can be careful
to avoid weeds. Many meadows are actu
ally ruined with weeds. II it is not con
vehjent TO get the clover and timothy
| thIeshed with thresher, it can be done
with fails, and will answer the purpose
| just as well. Try it. A dollar saved is
dollar made, and the farmer who saves anC
does not buy his seed will be apt to use i
more freely than if he paid his hard
earned money for it.-[Journal of Agri
culture.